On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 05:34:24PM -0400, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: > Here is the 3rd version of hugepage migration patchset. > I rebased it onto v3.11-rc1 and applied most of your feedbacks. > > Some works referred to in previous discussion (shown below) are not included > in this patchset, but likely to be done after this work. > - using page walker in check_range > - split page table lock for pmd/pud based hugepage (maybe applicable to thp)
I did a quick read through the patchkit and it looks all good to me. It also closes a long standing gap. Thanks! Acked-by: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com> > Hugepage migration of 1GB hugepage is not enabled for now, because > I'm not sure whether users of 1GB hugepage really want it. > We need to spare free hugepage in order to do migration, but I don't > think that users want to 1GB memory to idle for that purpose > (currently we can't expand/shrink 1GB hugepage pool after boot). I think we'll need 1GB migration sooner or later. As memory sizes go up 1GB use will be more common, and the limitation of not expanding/shrinking 1GB will be eventually fixed. It would be just a straight forward extension of your patchkit, right? -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
